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SUBMITTER: Menezes N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5658404 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Menezes Natália N Palumbo Giandomenico G Morais Smith Cristiane C
Scientific reports 20171026 1
It has been shown that local four-fermion interactions on the edges of two-dimensional time-reversal-invariant topological insulators give rise to a new non-Fermi-liquid phase, called helical Luttinger liquid (HLL). Here, we provide a first-principle derivation of this HLL based on the gauge-theory approach. We start by considering massless Dirac fermions confined on the one-dimensional boundary of the topological insulator and interacting through a three-dimensional quantum dynamical electromag ...[more]